orkut Doesn’t Require Invitation

23Oct06

orkut, Google’s social network, doesn’t need an invitation anymore. You can sign in using your Google Account.

orkut is an online community website designed for friends. The main goal of this service is to make your social life, and that of your friends, more active and stimulating. orkut’s social network can help you both maintain existing relationships and establish new ones by reaching out to people you’ve never met before. Who you interact with is entirely up to you. Before getting to know an orkut member, you can even see how they’re connecting to you through the friends network.

orkut has around 30 million users, and more than 60% of its users are from Brazil. It was launched in 2004, the same year Google unveiled Gmail.